Tag: climate change

Giant forest elephants and blue whales play an enormous role in climate sequestration. Can putting a financial value on that role help conserve them—and us?

While welcoming the win, activists vowed to continue fighting against destructive oil and gas extraction in the region.

President-elect Joseph R. Biden has indicated that he’ll quickly roll back the rollbacks as soon as he’s inaugurated. Yet a reset is not enough.

"Mock COP26 sends a strong message to world leaders that young people can coordinate global negotiations and we have the solutions."

"[This] rally is a culmination of intensive and sustained organizing by labor, racial justice, environmental, Indigenous, and other groups to address racial injustice, the climate crisis, and economic justice in this moment of overlapping crises."

“The current food system is responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions; it’s also fully dependent on oil both for transport and because pesticides and fertilizers are petrochemically-derived.”

Addressing the coronavirus pandemic can also provide opportunities to fight climate change and boost equity.

"There is no excuse for the continued funding of billions of dollars in coal, gas, or oil projects. This must stop now."

Record numbers of war-displaced to be dwarfed by those driven from their homes by climate change.

As BlackRock has boisterously taken up the mantle of sustainable investing, it must do more to shepherd us into a peace-based economy.